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Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size by cowboylowrez on Thursday October 09, 2025 @09:51PM (#45534754)
yeah, I'm still hoping that Wikipedia remains valuable and vigilant against attacks by the radical right but its obvious that Trump and congress could easily shut down wikipedia if they set their mind to it.
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Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size by fouc on Thursday October 09, 2025 @10:33PM (#45534938)
you're ignoring that both sides are doing poisoning attacks on wikipedia, trying to control the narrative. it's not just the "radical right"
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Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size by InvertedRhodium on Thursday October 09, 2025 @10:55PM (#45535017)
Not to mention that there is subset of people that are on neither side, and just want to watch the world burn for the sake of enjoying flames.
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Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size by cowboylowrez on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:22AM (#45535353)
I've never seen a poisoning attack on wikipedia from normies, it always seems to be the whackadoodles.
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Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size by aleph_minus_one on Friday October 10, 2025 @03:05AM (#45536095)
> I've never seen a poisoning attack on wikipedia from normies, it always seems to be the whackadoodles.

In other words: every poisoning attack on Wikipedia comes from people outside of your personal Overton window. :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

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Re:A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size by cowboylowrez on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:08AM (#45536726)
very true. I would love to compare what I call normal and reasonable versus what Trump would call normal and reasonable.
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